Wait time to receive Covid-19 vaccine booster shot to be cut from six months to five, federal government expected to announce
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Peter Dutton, speaking to Sky News this morning, also encouraged everyone to get their Covid-19 booster shot.
We’re seeing, you know, 200 or 300 cases a day in New South Wales at the moment, the hospital rate is manageable and mortality rate very low. So we have to keep a mindful eye on what’s happening into the future, encourage people to get the vaccination and in particular now, the booster. I had mine last week, and if we do that, then we can get back to, you know, a life as normal as possible and people can reunite with their families over Christmas without the fear of being locked down or having to do two weeks before they arrive or two weeks after they get back to their home state.
We want Australia to get on with it, and having travelled overseas only a few weeks ago, that’s exactly what’s happening in other parts of the world. We need to accept that we’ve got one of the best health systems in the world, the ability to deal with it and to deal with it sensibly.
People don’t want to go back to that [lockdowns]. I think that’s the general sentiment, frankly, across the country, including my home state of Queensland.
We need to make sure that we understand we’re living with this now. And that’s the idea of getting to 80 or 90% vaccination rates, in some cases as Greg Hunt pointed out the other day, people over the age of 60 now 99% vaccinated - quite a remarkable achievement. And people recognise that we are going to have this variant, we are going to have the next variant. And we’ve got the health system that can underpin the success.
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